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English
Etymology
Blend of zinc + Lincoln.
Noun
Zincoln (plural Zincolns)
- (numismatic slang) A Lincoln cent produced after 1982, made from copper-plated zinc rather than its earlier composition of 95% copper.
2006 August 14, Amistad, “Triple play”, in rec.collecting.coins (Usenet), retrieved 2022-12-03:Not infrequently, one of us will spot a Zincoln lying on the sidewalk or street, and pick it up. Today, I spotted a dime and scooped it up. Later she found a Zincoln, and ere we had traveled much further, I snagged a Jefferson. To which I feel compelled to cry in a voice both loud and long -- "Hey! This is fun!" :-)
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Zincoln.
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